Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy. Many years later, he continues to make films and show his old experimental 'live-screening' films, but is saddled with massive debts. This film follows eight years in his life.
Follows the election campaign of Muneo Suzuki, a politician who was at the center of a corruption scandal but is now extremely popular in his home Hokkaido for his character, and examines the state of postwar democracy through his election campaign.
The "new right" organization Issuikai was founded by activists after the death of Yukio Mishima in 1970. Director Kaneko follows representative Mitsuhiro Kimura's efforts to build an international anti-American network, visiting warzones in Iraq and former Yugoslavia.
